Here's some blooms of stone fruit

Yes Naeem, some beautiful blooms. Congrats.

As Spokane points out your Redhaven is a mislabel. If you will look in post #20 I have a pick of Redhaven blooms (The picture follows the type written name.)

As Tippy mentioned, you can compare it to your blooms as a reference. It’s possible my some of my varieties could be mislabeled, but very unlikely imo. They all match the literature for bloom description, fruit description and fruit ripening schedule, so I think my photos are a pretty good reference.


Top to bottom:
Redhaven
PF24C
O’Henry
Rio Oso Gem
Indian Free

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@SpokanePeach,
Your side by side comparison is smart. Sometimes, our close up pictures make the flowers look larger than they really are. Putting them together like this is helpful. Thanks.

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What is so difficult about any of these pictures is that. My Elberta, Early Crawford and Shui Mi Tao peach blossom all look alike. They look like the small Redhaven.

I think you can only tell so much from the blooms. I think it boils down to showy or non-showy. Past that, things like ripening times, fruit color inside and out, amount of pubescence, etc, must be used to narrow things down.

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Yes, even showy blooms can be just a sour seedling.

Juliet blooms.

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I do not know how many double layered, red peach blossoms out there. It took me a few years before I could successfully grafted the Red Baron peach. Thank you, @Barkslip.

Can’t wait to taste the fruit. Heard that it is a good tasting fruit, too.

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Wow…now that’s pretty enough to keep in the yard just for flowers…

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Beautiful! I grafted last year and am sooo look forward to seeing its blossom but I have to wait for next, hope it will not be as cold as this year

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The good thing about peach graft is that it can flower and set fruit the flowering year. This one I grafted last spring on a rootstock that planted in ground. All the branches have grown well and all have flowers.

There are 3 different kinds of flowers on this small tree this year:
non-showy (Foster and PF25), showy (rootstock, needed to be grafted on) and double showy (Red Baron).

The last of my peaches/netcs to bloom are Hardired (top) and Harrow Diamond (bottom).

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Not sure if anyone can identify what kind of peach this is from my bloom pics…? I planted this from a peach seed and now I can’t remember if it is white or yellow fleshed either :man_facepalming: here are some pics either way :grin:

Thinking all of these came from that same tree but also not 100% sure of that either…

EDIT Now that I am seeing these on a bigger screen I see that it is 2 different trees that I was taking pics of… I think the more pink ones came from one of them and the whiter ones came from the other.

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I also need to clarify that those are blooms from last year… and that was March 29, 2019 :+1:

I have also been going through the last few years of bloom pics and seems that they have bloomed the last few days of March since at least 2017 if that helps any?

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Seedlings are their own one of a kind . I have grown them myself . Almost always edible for peaches . I did grow a small white with mealy flesh . Did not like it .

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You can’t tell much about a peach from the bloom. You can tell if the peach is white fleshed or yellow fleshed from the bloom, but in most cases that’s about it. There are some very unique blooms of a few peach cultivars, but those are few and far between.

If you tear apart the bloom, the color of the inner lining (called the hypanthium) is indicative of the eventual color of the flesh of the peach. A yellow fleshed peach will have an orange hypanthium. A white fleshed peach will have a more yellow colored hypanthium.

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Since they are planted from seed is it considered a new variety then? They are from my wife’s uncles trees and I am sure he doesn’t remember what they are anyways …

Thanks for the replies!

Yes, any peach coming from seed would be considered a new variety.

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Cool! I may name them then :blush: I will try and keep up with them well this year and document them and see what everyone here thinks of them :+1:

Also I meant to mention the reason I can’t remember if that tree was white or yellow fleshed is because I have both but I just forget which ones are which at the moment :man_facepalming:

The big thing is going to be,how the fruit tastes.bb

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